Issam Zahreddine

Issam Zahreddine (born 1961) is a Brigadier-General of the Syrian Arab Army who is the commander of the Syrian 104th Brigade in Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Issam Zahreddine was born in As-Suwayda in the Syrian Arab Republic in 1961 to a Druze family. In 1985 he became an officer in the airborne units of the Syrian Arab Army and in 1988 he joined the Syrian Republican Guard. He took part in the fighting in Rif Damashq and Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War as a Brigadier-General in command of the Syrian 104th Brigade and as the leader of the Syrian Arab Army forces in Aleppo. On 27 November 2013 he was wounded by a bullet in his leg.